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Amazon Robotics

Robot type
Warehouse and Logistics
Location
SeattleWashingtonUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Jun 2, 2026
Full-time

Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Robotics - Vulcan

Job description

Our team in Amazon Robotics builds robotic systems that perform contact-rich manipulation tasks safely and reliably in complex, unstructured environments — at Amazon scale. Our scientists and engineers push the boundaries of robotic manipulation to handle enormous object diversity, bringing deep expertise across planning, control, perception, and machine learning. We learn from real-world data at a scale that few teams in robotics can access.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Applied Scientist to join our Motion Behaviors team. You will drive the development of learned controllers and manipulation behaviors, applying techniques like reinforcement learning and behavior cloning to robots…

Job requirements

  • PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  • 4+ years of robotics work cells and control systems experience
  • 3+ years of building and deploying machine learning models for robotics applications
  • Track record of training reinforcement learning or imitation learning policies in simulation and successfully transferring them to physical robotic systems
  • Experience with sim-to-real transfer at scale (domain randomization, system identification, etc.)
  • Experience deploying learned policies in production environments with uptime and reliability requirements
  • Experience designing reward functions and training curricula for reinforcement learning on robotic systems

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